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Having proved themselves as adept at telling gags about confectionery as they are at rocking like bastards at last weekend's ATP Vs The Fans, Cardiff's angriest, Future Of The Left, follow up Falco's quite narked blog about their new album leaking of t'ot»

In what DiS's best but entirely unsubstantiated guess is a response to the recent leak of Wilco's drolly-titled seventh set Wilco (The Album), the entire kaboodle (due June 30) is now streaming online.
DiS is off to the pub in a second and sort of feels »

DiS's Dom Gourlay and Andrzej Lukowski descended upon the first UK ATP of '09 like two gods of yore. Sleep probably being what the gods of yore would listen to had stoner metal been around in yore. But enough musings on divinity: here's our high and low p»

Those of you with no true love of film as an artform will perhaps have missed the hi-larious reference in the title there. It is, of course, an allusion to Leprechaun 4: In Space, a dubious if quite amusing attempt to shore up an ailing entertainment fran»

For the last five Mugison’s been running the free Aldrei Fór Ég Suður festival (literally ‘I never went south’) with help from various locals, most notably his father, Papa Muggi, harbour master to Ísafjörður and also, oddly, a professional karaoke singer.»

To some degree Depeche Mode have been on a mission to curtail their more ridiculous tendencies for years now, 2005’s Playing The Angel seeing them shelve the clean hugeness of digital and allow themselves a slurp of warm analogue. Sounds Of The Universe sees them continue that tendency, only, y’know... more good.»

Back in 2004, Green Day rather unexpectedly became the biggest band in the world by writing American Idiot, a rock opera about how their home country was a bit rubbish. Successor 21st Century Breakdown arrives May 15th, but DiS can bring you word from deep inside the recesses of Warner Music as to how the three movement, 17-track, allegedly storylined, soon to be inescapable opus sounds.»

So I mostly went along to see one of MBV's reunion dates at The Roundhouse last year because it seemed like the type of thing I ought to do... as much as I'm a fan of Loveless and quite fond of Isn't Anything, I figured it'd ultimately be kind of lovely in a boring way.In fact what happened was the precise opposite... »

DiS attended an advance listen to forthcoming album Lungs, checking out what precisely Florence Welch and her Machine have been cookin’ up with producer James Ford. It’s fair to say we were a little surprised.»

Got any plans next Monday? Yeah, DiS had some too. We were going to get married and then cure cancer. Maybe save some orphans. Screw THAT - instead we'll be loitering outside London's Scala frantically haranguing all and sundry for tickets for the short n»

_Though she doubtless pines nightly for the days when Bat For Lashes was signed to Drowned In Sound records, it has to be said that Natasha Khan has done alright for herself since BFL's debut single 'The Wizard' emerged three years ago. »

13 entertaining jolts of acid-washed garage rock; for sure it’s fun, but where the heavier, weirder EP spoke of ruptured adrenaline glands, weeks without sleep, and more cracked ambition than a Clinton family get-together, Tentacles is content to infer Crystal Antlers are well-acquainted with Lenny Kaye’s Nuggets compilation and kind of leave it at that.»

A single 25 minute, 48 second track released as a free download via cashmusic.org at the end of last year, it now reaches us in physical vinyl form. Though divided into seven movements (and arguably two nameless songs, given the need to flip the LP), it feels neither self-indulgent – it’s bruisingly visceral throughout, no ambling build – nor does it come across like a bunch of small tracks cobbled together.»

Much loved scourge of the independent record shop Amazon.com has just named its top 100 indie-rock albums of all time and the results are somewhat, um, interesting. On the one hand - yay! The top three is Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand, Neutral Milk Hotel»

Kids these days, eh? With their computers and their Pokemon and precocious sense of fashion and their guns. Must be awful. Not like back in the Eighties when we had ZX Spectrums, the Cold War and Button Moon to keep ourselves amused.
'What the hell is a»

Yes yes, many of us may have spent the day kind of sort of protesting against everything Barack Obama stands for, but, -giggle- just writing his name down makes us at DiS Towers blush like schoolchildren. And we’re not the only ones: Radio 4 yesterday ask»

Okay, it’s a bit unrealistic to expect Polly Jean Harvey (the person) to spend her free time pining at the stars in a Dorset garret, but still, seeing her goof around was... weird. PJ Harvey (the indie star) does not goof around or do fun. PJ Harvey can be exhilarating, thrilling, or offer up a disturbingly hysterical variant on black humour, but she ain't fun.»

The overwhelming mass of the tracks on Yes are trite, gooey and laboured, hollow lyrics set to fruity gushes of soft-focus, over embellished synth layers. It may end up being a smash with the How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? crowd, but it ain't going to galvanise a new generation.»

Truthfully A Hundred Things Keeps Me Up At Night falls down a little simply because the energy levels have trailed off just a tad since their debut. It’s not that the record sound tired, just that there’s nothing that quite smacks into you with the ‘what the fuck is wrong with these people?’ force of ‘Talk Talk Talk Talk’ or ‘Ageing Had Never Been His Friend’.»